N. Korea: Step toward disarmament
After months of stalled negotiations between North Korea and the international community, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Monday it will send a team to North Korea next week to discuss how the agency’s inspectors will verify the promised shutdown of the country’s nuclear reactor. Separately, a Russian news agency reported that North Korea plans to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in the second half of July.
Bahamas: Rapist appeals flogging
A Bahamian man who is to be flogged 10 times with a whip for raping a 6-year-old girl will appeal that part of his sentence, his lawyer said Monday. Andrew Bridgewater was sentenced to the flogging and seven years in prison for attacking the girl. The whipping – from a whip made of nine knotted cords – would come in two sessions spread over two weeks. He will not seek to reduce his prison sentence but should be spared corporal punishment, defense attorney Wayne Watson said.
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